Friday, August 14, 2015

DYLANN ROOF WON

There are some people who believe that we should never
mention the name of a mass murderer because naming him gives him the
recognition that he is after. Avoiding his name does not reverse the fact: a
young man called Dylann Roof shot nine black Americans to death in a church in
Charleston, South Carolina. Pretending a man does not exist will not make it
so. In fact, pretense is the friend of shortsightedness; the former may give
rise to the latter. And a shortsighted vision may lead us by the hand to do
things that are so awry that they may fit in with the mass murderer’s own
scheme. The same Americans who refuse to mention the name of this mass murderer
are inadvertently forwarding the deeper object that the mass murderer had in
mind. Dylann Roof wanted recognition; but he wanted something more: he wanted to
begin a race war.

How are Americans forwarding the race war that Dylann Roof
wanted to initiate? First, know this: the race war was already on before Roof
murdered those people. The cause of the race war may be traced back to
influential, despicable characters such as President Obama, Eric Holder, and Al
Sharpton. It may be traced back to the war on cops that such characters have
kicked off. I feel sorry for all the good blacks out there, don’t you? The
blacks at the top are not role models, but malevolent rogues.

When we live in denial, we tend to do things that will give
us a sense that we are rectifying the problem that we deny exists. This makes
us feel better in the moment. But it allows the problem to fester, continue,
and grow. The real problem is this: treating blacks like they have a right to
break the law as payback for the slavery of their ancestors. And their breaking
the law with impunity limits the freedom of those who obey the law. Taking
Confederate flags down just sends the signal that blacks can keep pushing, keep
breaking the law, and keep limiting the freedom of others, and it tempts them
to push the envelope more and more, which is how the race war that Dylann Roof
wanted, is fostered and furthered. True, there were no riots after this mass
murder. That is a good thing in itself. But using this mass murder as an excuse
to tear down Confederate flags will yield long-term consequences that are much worse
than one single riot.

When the first Confederate flag was taken down on account of
this mass murder, a friend of mine exclaimed: Dylann Roof won. True, he did
win. When the powers-that-be decided to start a witch hunt against Confederate
flags, the decision honored Dylann Roof because at some point the progressive removal
of Confederate flags and monuments will not be tolerated by Southerners, and
the race war that Dylann Roof wanted will be advanced by their resistance. The
race war that Dylann Roof was shooting for will be stepped up each time a flag
is taken down, a monument is removed, or a street is renamed.

It is an unpopular thing to say, and I’m not on Roof’s side,
of course, but he did win, and the Republicans, not just the Democrats, helped
him get the victory. The Republican forefathers who ended slavery would not be
impressed by that, to say the least. They would not be pleased to learn that
their brand has helped to undo the unity, equality, and peace that they aimed
to put into practice. Dylann Roof’s race-war-dream is coming true. President
Obama and his race-war-henchmen are all hyped up for that, for anarchy is the
tool of tyranny. Dylann Roof has been honored so much by Confederate flag removals
that some race peddler might as well call for a statue to be erected in his
honor in Washington D. C. Because of our fear and weakness, we have fallen down
before Dylann Roof and the race mongers. “A righteous man falling down before
the wicked is a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring” (Proverbs 25.26.) It
is a stretch to say that the average American man is righteous. And so if it is
true to say that a ‘righteous’ man who falls before the wicked is corrupt, what
shall we say of the ‘unrighteous’ man?

This has been a Puritanical opinion on
the race war that weak-spirited, short-sighted American citizens are helping
Dylann Roof to accelerate.